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Canadian Publications Mail Product Sales Agreement #40010349 Official Publication of Mocha Temple www.mochashriners.org Published 4 times a year Statement of Purpose: To allow members to share items of interest while promoting our commitment to children and the interests of Mocha Centre. Editor: Dennis Cook 519-842-3064 Editor Emeritus: Gerry Stephenson, Floyd James Public Relations: Paul Smith, 519-637-3396 Office: Sharron Miller, Heather Palmer and Jody Axford 468 Colborne St. London, ON N6B 2T3 Phone: 519-672-1391 mochashriners@rogers.com Fax: 519-672-7723 Lounge: 519-672-2043 ELECTED DIVAN 2010 Potentate: Jack Cumming 519-353-5556 hjcumming@brucetelecom.com Lady Helen Chief Rabban: David Fickling 519-451-6724 ficks@rogers.com Lady Patricia Assistant Rabban: Rob Parker 519-680-0032 parkerrob@rogers.com Lady Deb High Priest & Prophet: Jim Thomsen 519-495-1882 jimmyjobillybob@rogers.com Lady Deb Oriental Guide: Bob Marshall 519-245-5567 rcm@ispca Lady Vesta Treasurer: Dave Fahrner, PP 519-641-4998 fahrner@sympatico.ca Lady Susan Recorder: Jeff Brown 519-285-2042 2.browns@rogers.com Lady Lynne APPOINTED First Ceremonial Master: Brian Dayman 519-353-4332 bddayman@gmail.com Lady Corinne Director: Tommy Hill 519-268-2409 hill@sympatico.ca Lady Cheryl Marshall: Craig Kealey 519-389-4187 kealey@bmts.com Lady Sue Captain of the Guard: Earl Schneider 519-343-2315 schneider@sonicwaves.ca Lady Ann Outer Guard: Bill Baxter 519-348-8000 bmbaxter@ezlink.ca Lady Mary POTENTATE’S APPOINTMENTS Chief Aide: Frank Eagleson 519-797-2067 feagleson@bmts.com Lady Doris Chaplain/Donor Relations: Rev. Canon Michael Farr 519-396-8284 morkfarr@bmts.com Lady Kathleen Assistant Chaplain: Rev. Gordon Simmons 519-344-1983 simmons.gord@gmail.com Membership: Harry Hewbank 519-773-7147 hhewbank@eastlink.ca Lady Ruth Pubic Relations: Paul Smith 519-637-3396 pjsmith@pjsmithassoc.ca Lady Terry Mocha News Editor: Dennis Cook 519-842-3064 thecooks@sympatico.ca Lady Diane Mocha News Advertising: John Davidson 519-657-1303 johndavidson@rogers.com Lady Cathy Temple Attorney: C. F. MacKewn Jr. 519-672-2171 x228 fmackewn@mwk.on.ca External Auditor: John Rozeluk 519-471-6900 john@rozelukandcompany.ca Facility Manager - Inside: Bent Anderson 519-672-7408 krisandbent@porchlight.ca Lady Kris Facility Manager - Outside: Fraser Grant 519-657-4318 sales6000@gmail.com Lady Connie Photographer: Randy Dunlop 519-264-2964 rdphoto@rogers.com Lady Valerie Piper: Wilson McBeath 519-485-3496 Page 2 August 2011 We are now well into summer and it feels good, after the cold wet spring. There has been a lot of activity with the Mocha Shriners, since the last Mocha News and I will try to bring you up to speed on the activities. The first would be the Mocha Ball on May 7th at the Lamplighter Inn. Some changes resulted in a good attendance of approximately 280 people and I want to thank everyone who came out to support Helen and I for this event. Next, was the Spring Ceremonial in beautiful Saugeen Shores, again, another good attendance of Shriners and their ladies. Approximately 150 ladies attended the luncheon held on Saturday. We had 49 new candidates at the Ceremonial along with another 3 at the Bruce Shrine Club installation, and 1 affiliate for a total of 53 new Shriners. A great parade, with entries from all over the Mocha jurisdiction, even from Rameses Temple, was a highlight of the weekend. Thanks to the Legion of Honour, Bands, the Jeepsters for taking the Divan, and to all Clubs and Units for the special effort you put forth to be there. The donations were excellent being approximately $503,000 at the Ceremonial, including what has come in since. Great work Nobles, and thanks for your consideration of the Shrine Hospitals, Transportation Fund, the 100 Million Dollar Club, General Operations, MoFund, Mocha News and donations to Mocha Temple for the planned renovations to the Upper Banquet Room. We are now in a good position to move forward on this project and I hope by fall, we have all the plans in and approved. Thanks Nobles for your support of this project. Getting back to the 53 new members of Mocha, we are also planning a Fall Ceremonial in the Temple on Saturday, Nov 5th at 9:00 am. We have approximately 10 candidates for this event plus 4 at the Sault Shrine Club, which we will bring in while on our visit there in September. This will bring us very close to the 75 we lost to the Black Camel this year, so we are close to maintaining our membership numbers. We have received a Bronze Award for 2010, to do with maintaining our membership totals. Membership Chairman, Harry Hewbank, says we are in line for a Silver Award for 2011 for membership, so we are certainly going in the right direction. If any of you know of a Master Mason interested in Potentate’s Report joining Mocha Shriners, please bring them to the Fall Ceremonial. Noble recorder, Jeff Brown and I were invited to Brantford Shrine Club on June 2nd and presented with three lovely paintings, which were in their building prior to their sale of the property. We appreciated very much, accepting these paintings on Mocha’s behalf and will treasure their monetary and sentimental value very much as we look at them in our Temple. We attended the Imperial Session of Shriner’s International in Denver Colorado, from July 2nd to July 7th. It was a very busy session with a lot of business on the “Call”. The new Imperial Potentate is Imperial Sir Michael G. Severe from El Jebel Shriners in Denver. Imperial Sir “Mike” became a Shriner at 22 years of age, so he brings a lot of experience with him. We are now into the season of Golf Tournaments and B.B.Q.’s so take the opportunity to visit some of your neighbouring Clubs and Units in a social atmosphere. September 14th, is the Great Lake Shrine Association Annual meeting in Youngstown Ohio. We will be travelling to that event to represent Mocha, as we are a member of GLSA. September 20th, we are going on our Northern Trip to visit the Huron Shrine Club at Elliott Lake and the Sault Shrine Club at Sault Ste. Marie. There are still a couple of seats left for the Potentates Trip on October 13th to October 17th, so if anyone is interested, please call me. The next stated meeting is on Wednesday October 12th so please plan to attend, as it will be an interesting and busy evening. Hope you are enjoying the format of the Mocha News, thanks to Nobles Boris Melnyk, George Van Slack and Stew Murdock. They have done a lot of work on the best way to produce this magazine at a lower cost, so thanks Nobles for what you have done. It just enforces my motto: “Let’s All Pull Together” it works every time. We are planning our second information day, as per your request, on Saturday, August 27th at 9:00 am in the Temple. Seniors Day will be the same day as our next Stated Meeting Wednesday October 12th at 11:00 am at the Temple, with a roast beef dinner and presentation of awards at 12:00 noon. If you plan to come, please contact us for meal reservations. Have a good summer nobles, your ladies and families and I hope to see you soon at some event in your area, or the next Stated Meeting. Yours in the Faith, Jack Cumming, Potentate, Mocha Shriners MOCHA NEWS
Recorder’s Corner by Jeff Brown Our Spring Ceremonial was a huge success and it was thanks to the Bruce Shrine Club for hosting a great weekend. We initiated three candidates just prior to the Ceremonial at the Bruce Shrine Club Official Visit as they were unable to attend the weekend’s festivities. Then at the Ceremonial, we initiated a further 48 candidates for a total of 51 new Nobles! As we reconciled the donations from the Ceremonial, additional donations kept flowing in to the office and our final total reached just over $504,000. Well done Nobles!! Many issues and events followed the Ceremonial until we found ourselves prepping to leave for the Imperial Sessions in Denver, Colorado. There was a very full agenda for the business sessions this year and we found ourselves very busy over the few days we had there. I attended the Recorder’s Seminar on Sunday morning and got a number of updates and new information to deal with over the next several months. My wife and I had the unique pleasure of being made “Honorary Texans” this year and invited to attend the Texas Breakfast event on the Monday morning at 6:30 a.m. They put on a great show after breakfast by “roasting” each of the Imperial Divan Ladies then having the pleasure of being serenaded in return by the Imperial Divan ladies in a well done Country Music song with Shrine related lyrics. We finished all this and still got the Imperial Divan and ourselves to the first Business Session at the scheduled time. The weather was great (hot & dry) and there was lots to see around the area for those who had time to book side trips. Highlights of the Business Sessions included the creation of a new Temple in Heidelberg, Germany with the name of EMERAT SHRINERS. We expressed our congratulations to our newest Temple and wished them every success in the future. We now Chaplain’s Chat As I write this column, our mission to Afghanistan is drawing to a close and most of our troops are coming home. Most of them will return home in good health, but a significant number will return home with the invisible scars of the mission,-post traumatic stress disorders. Others have already returned bearing the physical and emotional scars of their service. As padre to several veterans’ organizations I have been often disgusted by the amount of red tape and bureaucratic nonsense that some of our veterans have to face when they apply for assistance or pensions. These men and women volunteered to serve their country, they have 194 Temples around the world! A proposed Temple in Mindanao, Philippines was also given a UD registration and we will look forward to their business report next year. This may be our 195th Temple! Members of the other new Temples were also in attendance and participated in the big parade on Monday, July 4th in downtown Denver. Our new Imperial Potentate is Imperial Sir Michael Severe and is one of the youngest Imperial Potentates ever installed into this prestigious office. We all look forward to another good year within our fraternity in 2011 – 2012. Next year’s Imperial Session will take place in Charlotte, N.C. As part of the Hospital Report, we learned how our hospitals are changing with new business and processes approved by the delegates to extend 3rd party pay within our system in the U.S.A. In order to overcome our financial shortfalls each year, this is a crucial element that had to pass this year. It will enable our U.S. hospitals the ability to collect insurance money and co-pay benefits to offset ever growing costs. We also discovered how our various hospitals are changing to reflect the new realities of medical treatment. We no longer need 40 or 60 bed hospitals when average overnight stays are in the single digits. More and more hospitals are utilizing new procedures and treatments to significantly reduce hospital stays and the huge overhead costs that represents. However, even though our look and treatments are changing, our attention to detail with our patients will never change. We will always continue to provide the “world’s best care” by the “World’s Greatest Philanthropy”. Noble Barry O’Brien is continuing to work with his committee on the banquet hall project and hopefully will have a report available for our next Stated Meeting in October. I personally urge as many as possible to attend our next Stated Meeting to learn how everything is proceeding. October 12th @ 7:30 p.m. mark it on your calendar now. Stay safe over the rest of the summer; we want to see you back this fall. did not volunteer to be wounded or killed in action. They knew that they might be called to put their lives on the line to save others just as police officers, fire fighters, and other emergency responders do every day. Members of the Legion of Honour have all served their country and paid the price for our freedoms; as fellow Shriners we have a duty to advocate on the behalf of all veterans, to support them and their families in their times of need and above all to thank them for their selfless call to duty. We as nobles of the Mystic Shrine have a duty to respond to the call to serve our God, our country, our families, and our temple always remembering the scripture to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and all your might,” (The Tanakh, Deuteronomy 6:5) and “Love your fellow as yourself” (The Tanakh, Leviticus 19:18). Blessings and Peace, Gordon Simmons MOCHA NEWS August 2011 Page 3
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